Crescent danishes are a delicious breakfast treat (or snack) but making them at home can be exhausting. From scratch recipes often take over 8 hours for the dough alone! This recipe uses a quick cooking hack to make delicious danishes in under 30 minutes.
I love eating danishes and making them at home means that I can add whatever I want to the top and have them taste incredible every time. Not only that, but eating a warm cream cheese crescent roll breakfast danish fresh from the oven is always awesome!
This recipe lets you have full creative control and it's frugal too!
What makes this crescent roll danish recipe even better is that it's so easy to make the kids can help out too! So give everyone a few and make breakfast a team effort. They'll enjoy helping and you'll feel great knowing they're making something that they actually WANT to eat.
🥘 Ingredients
- Canned Crescent Rolls
- Cream Cheese
- Vanilla Extract
- Powdered Sugar
Optional Toppings:
- Jam
- Maraschino Cherries
- Fresh Fruit
🍽 Equipment Needed
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- Baking sheet
- Wire cooling rack
- Small bowl
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
🔪 Instructions
Check out how to make crescent roll danishes with these simple step-by-step instructions:
In a small bowl combine your cream cheese, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar until smooth. Set aside.
Open your can of crescent rolls, detach them from one another and then pick one up.
On the flat side of the triangle, grab the tip and the bottom of the wide end and roll them around to meet, forming an open circle.
Push them together to close in that gap and they take the top of the wide part of the triangle (it should be pointing straight up right now) and bring it around to make a bowl.
Push the sides down so that it's no longer a bowl, but a flat circle.
Spread out the dough a little as needed to make a slightly bigger circle.
Place onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Using a spoon, grab a small amount of cream cheese (about half a spoon size, or half a tablespoon of cream cheese and place it in the center. If you don't wish to add anything else, you can double this amount.
Add a small amount of jam (sam amount as cream cheese) or add a few pieces of fresh fruit or cherries. You don't need to rub anything around, just place them in the center so that they aren't too close to the edges.
Bake for 12-15 minutes at 350F degrees.
Let cool on a wire rack and place the baking sheet beneath it.
If desired-In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar and milk or water to create a glaze, drizzle the glaze over the top, letting the sheet collect the mess.
Serve and enjoy.
🍴 Recipe Tips
I recommend using the already cut triangle crescent rolls because they roll up more easily and require less work. For a crescent roll sheet, you'll need to cut it into 2 or 3 inch strips and then roll it up and flatten it to get a similar look.
When you go to add the cream cheese and jam, it's going to feel like you don't have much on there, and I completely understand, but as you can see from the progress pictures included on this page, they spread and cover more surface area as they bake.
💭 FAQs
If stored in the fridge, you can get these danishes to last up to a week and still be good. Just make sure that you let them cool completely before storing them so that they don't become soggy.
These danishes can be frozen after they've cooled off. Just freeze them flat on a baking sheet and wrap each one individually and place them in an airtight container for up to 3 months. Alternatively, you can lay them flat and put a piece of parchment paper in between each layer.
Other awesome breakfast recipes to try soon!
- Strawberry Cream Cheese Turnovers
- Baked Scrambled Eggs
- Carrot Cake Pancakes with Cream Cheese Syrup
- How to Make Frozen Hashbrowns
- French Toast Kabobs
- Puff Pastry Egg Tart
- Blueberry Muffin in a Mug
📖 Recipe
Easy Crescent Roll Danishes
Equipment
- Small Bowl
Ingredients
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened ($0.99)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ($0.01)
- ¼ cup powdered sugar ($0.02)
- 2 cans crescent roll dough ($1.64)
Optional Toppings
- Strawberry Jam
- Blackberry Jam
- Sliced Almonds
- Fresh Berries
- Maraschino Cherries
Glaze
- ¼ cup powdered sugar ($0.02)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ($0.02)
- 3-4 tablespoon milk or water ($0.05)
Instructions
- In a small bowl combine your cream cheese, vanilla extract, and ¼ cup powdered sugar until smooth.
- Open your can of crescent rolls, detach them from one another and then pick one up. On the flat side of the triangle, grab the tip and the bottom of the wide end and roll them around to meet, forming an open circle.
- Push them together to close in that gap and they take the top of the wide part of the triangle (it should be pointing straight up right now) and bring it around to make a bowl.
- Push the sides down so that it's no longer a bowl, but a flat circle. Creating a small lip/rim around the edge is also a nice idea although not necessary.
- Using a spoon, grab a small amount of cream cheese (about half a spoon sized amount), or half a tablespoon of cream cheese and place it in the center. If you don't wish to add anything else, you can just double this amount.
- Add a small amount of jam (same amount as cream cheese) or add a few pieces of fresh fruit or cherries. You don't need to rub anything around, just place them in the center so that they aren't too close to the edges. They'll move and expand their coverage area as they bake.
- Pick up the danish and place it on a baking sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes at 350F degrees.
- Let them cool on a wire rack and place the baking sheet beneath it.
- In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk or water to create a glaze, drizzle the glaze over the top, letting the sheet collect the mess. Add the glaze while they're warm so that you don't have to wait so long for them to cool.
- Serve and enjoy.
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